Another entry another story.HAHA but there's not much story to tell actually.

Ok.So we did good for Singapore Dragon Boat Festival 2011.We did win something for every category we participate in.We got 3rd for Plates Final all 3 categories (20men crew/20mixed crew/10men crew).It was an end to a season and also means a beginning of a new season. New training programme, new captain, new committee and hopefully new rowers!
You must be wondering, Hmmm,what's Plates final?Ok in Dragonboat races, after semi finals, we go to different finals depending on our timing and placing.Top 5 will battle it out in Grand-finals, next best 5 will go to Minor-finals, and lastly we have Plates-finals. I think this is an achievement for the team, although I haven't been in the team long enough, but I can tell that people are putting in effort and doing their best. I've received some feedback about my strokes and techniques. I feel quite discouraged at first but I will do my best to change and improve it.

I went for this 2 short temp job recently, the first one was food distributing, and the second one was event assistance for the 52nd National Inter-Primary School Swimming Championship 2011. It was a 3 day event. The heats was on 21st and 22nd,while the finals was held today. I was basically one of the timekeepers, assisting to take backup timing incase the machines are faulty or didn't register the timing. It was a good learning experience and I've always enjoyed events because they are always so different and you get to learn a lot of new things. The swimmers are really inspiring. They are only like age 10-12, but when I see the seriousness in their face when standing on the starting board, waiting for the horn to sound. As of today, I have new found respect for swimmers. The expressions on their faces are so genuine, be it win or lose.
I've also learnt some rules and regulations about the sport. To name a few, for breaststroke and butterfly stroke, both hands MUST touch the ending board at the same time or you will be disqualified. And here comes the really sad part, false start results in immediate disqualification. Sometimes I think swimmers deserve a second chance. I mean, they've trained so hard for this race, and due to a moment of error/nervousness/lost-focus they get DQ. I've also seen this case where this parent was walking by the side of the pool when the race was going on, and he/she was cheering for their child. The swimmer was also disqualified due to 'illegal pacing' by the parent. I think this is so unfair to the swimmers because they did nothing wrong, and got disqualified because their parent was walking and cheering for them. I totally understand how it feels because I am a sport-person myself.It's so unfair ):